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Friday, December 1, 2017

The Reading Life Review - November, 2017 - Future Plans and Hopes,

November Authors

Among the 25 authors Featured on The Reading Life in November 10 are living, 15 are dead. There are 12 women and 13 men. Here are the nationalities of the writers

Germany 10

USA 4

Polish 1

India 1

Japan 1

Luxembourg 1

Azerbaijan 1

Nigeria 1

Ukraine 1

Czechoslovakia 2

Austria 2

Row 1,from the left

Karen Russell- author Swamplandia, two short story Collections

Johannes Urzidil- The Last Bell, wonderful stories of Prague

Deborah Eisenberg. Prominent short story writer, essayist

Isabelle Lehn -

Martin Suter

Alfred Sebald, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, The Emigrants, Austerlitz

Alfred Döblin- Author Alexanderplatz, premier Weimar era novel

Row 2,from left

Marjana Gaponenko

Arthur Schnitzler

Stefan Zweig

Irmgard Keun, Silk Girl, Gigli, After Midnight

Isiah Spiegel, author of short stories set in Łódź Ghetto

Franz Kafka

Row 3,from left

Mavis Gallant

Lorrie Moore

Alexander Holenia

Olga Grujasna

Katherine Mansfield

Jenny Zhang, author Sour Heart

Row 4,from left

Junichiro Tanazaki

Joseph Roth

R. K. Narayan

Heinrich Von Kleist

Inga Wagener

Chimamanda Adichie

Ernest Hoffman, author of Blood Brothers, a very good Weimar novel, disappeared after being summoned by the Gestapo. I could find no images of him.

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Countries from Which Visits Came in November

Philippines

U.S.A

India

UK

Canada

The five most visited posts were all on short stories, three by Filipino authors, two by Indian.

German Literature Month

November was German Literture Month, my sixth year of participation

Here is what I read for the event

Life

“You’d Have Larvae Too” by Nora Wagener, 2016

Vertigo by W. G. Sebald, 1990

The Last Weynfeldt by Martin Suter, 2006

“An Earthquake in Chile” by Heinrich Von Kleist, 1809

Who is Martha? by Marjana Gaponenko, 2012

“The Legal Haziness of Marriage” by Olga Grjasnowa, 2015

“Aladdin, COB” by Isabelle Lehn, 2015

“The Last Bell” by Johannes Urzidil, 1968

The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald, 1995

Late Fame by Arthur Schnitzler, written 1892, published 2016

Blood Brothers by Ernst Haffner, 1933

Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin, 1929

Confessions of a Murderer by Joseph Roth, 1936

“Compulsion” by Stefan Zweig, 1929

“Borderlands”by Johannes Urzidil, 1956 (no post)

“A School Boy’s Diary” by Robert Walser, 1910 (no post

Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald, 2001, Second Reading

“The Duchess of Albanera” by Johannes Urzidil, 1965

Gigli by Irmgard Keun, 1931

Gay Berlin -Birth of a Modern Identity by Robert Beachy, 2014 *

“Ernst in Civilian Clothes” by Mavis Gallant, 1963 *

“Germans at Meat” by Katherine Mansfield, 1908 *

Casanova’s Homecoming by Arthur Schnitzler, 1918

“Investigations of a Dog” by Franz Kafka, 1922

Items with an * are my supplements to German Literature Month

All in all a very good Month. Hope to be back for November, 2018

Works I read but did not post upon

Three short stories by Karen Russell from Vampires in The Lemon Grove

“Bohemian” by George Saunders - I plan to read more of his work in December

Some Future Plans on Short Stories

I have decided to try something new in my posting upon short stories.

Every Month I Will Focus on short stories from Two countries, with The goal of one story from each country per week. In December I Will feature Yiddish Short Stories and 21 First Century works by Americans. In January I’m thinking Bolivian and Iranian Stories.

As my blog approaches five million page views I have recruited additions to the staff

Mel u - Founder and Director

Ambrosia Bousweau -European Director

Avant Bousweau - Consultant Upon The Legacy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Tarkington Bousweau - from the Bousweau Foundation

Alekhhya Bousweau- IT director

Euphemia Bousweau Rodengranz -advisory director of The Reading Life -

Elizabeth Bousweau Yusupov - Czarist Era Russian Literature

Merlinda Bousweau- advisor upon 19 Century Paraguay and Bolivian Literature

Theodore Bousweau - Senior Director, at large

Ruffington Bousweau IV - Intern

Flabingtina Bousweau Arlenas - Art Director

As time permits, I will introduce everyone to our readers.

I anticipate more additions to expand our Asian and South American coverage.

I’m very grateful to all who take the time to leave comments, you help keep me going.

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